Here’s one invitation to opportunity we dare not miss …

Our lives are crammed full of opportunity.

Without careful evaluation, you may not think so, but there’s usually more opportunity embedded into any given day in our lives that we never see because we don’t have the eyes to see them.

Put another way, we want what WE want so desperately that we’re often blind to anything else.

Even something as serious as our salvation.

Seriously!

Just look closely at this story told by Jesus …

“Jesus also told them other parables. He said, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come! So he sent other servants to tell them, “The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!” But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them,'” Matthew 22:1-6.

The single greatest opportunity ANY of will ever have in our lifetimes is the invitation by God to be reconciled to Him through Jesus Christ. Every other opportunity in life pales in comparison to that one. God takes that invitation to us — and our response to Him — seriously …

“The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor. Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’ So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests,” Matthew 22:7-10.

Some of us are so prideful in our selfishness that we think we can pursue what WE want now, and sneak into God’s great party on our own terms.

It doesn’t work that way …

“But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply. Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,’” Matthew 22:11-13.

God has extended to us an invitation to be reconciled to Him through Jesus Christ, to be adopted into His own family and spend eternity with Him as His children. Responding to His invitation MUST be done on His terms, not ours.

Do you see the opportunity in such an invitation?

Have you responded appropriately to God’s invitation to you?

Or are you hoping to sneak into the banquet hall, dressed inappropriately in your own desires?

If you fail to respond to the invitation of an opportunity, you lose the opportunity.

Scotty